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Mastering Python Networking - Fourth Edition: Utilize Python packages and frameworks for network automation, monitoring, cloud, and management 4th ed. Edition

by Eric Chou (Author)
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Get to grips with the latest container examples, Python 3 features, GitLab DevOps, network data analysis, and cloud networking to get the most out of Python for network engineering with the latest edition of this bestselling guide


Purchase of the print or Kindle book includes a free eBook in PDF format.


Key Features:

  • Explore the power of the latest Python libraries and frameworks to tackle common and complex network problems efficiently and effectively
  • Use Python and other open source tools for Network DevOps, automation, management, and monitoring
  • Use Python 3 to implement advanced network-related features


Book Description:

Networks in your infrastructure set the foundation for how your application can be deployed, maintained, and serviced. Python is the ideal language for network engineers to explore tools that were previously available to systems engineers and application developers. In Mastering Python Networking, Fourth edition, you'll embark on a Python-based journey to transition from traditional network engineers to network developers ready for the next-generation of networks.


This new edition is completely revised and updated to work with the latest Python features and DevOps frameworks. In addition to new chapters on introduction to Docker containers and Python 3 AsyncIO for network engineers, each chapter is updated with the latest libraries with working examples to ensure compatibility and understanding of the concepts.


Starting with a basic overview of Python, the book teaches you how it can interact with both legacy and API-enabled network devices. You will learn to leverage high-level Python packages and frameworks to perform network automation tasks, monitoring, management, and enhanced network security, followed by AWS and Azure Cloud networking. You will use Git for code management, GitLab for continuous integration, and Python-based testing tools to verify your network.


What You Will Learn:

  • Use Python to interact with network devices
  • Understand Docker as a tool that you can use for the development and deployment
  • Use Python and various other tools to obtain information from the network
  • Learn how to use ELK for network data analysis
  • Utilize Flask and construct high-level API to interact with in-house applications
  • Discover the new AsyncIO feature and its concepts in Python 3
  • Explore Test-Driven Development concepts and use PyTest to drive code test coverage
  • Understand how GitLab can be used with DevOps practices in networking


Who this book is for:

Mastering Python Networking, Fourth edition is for network engineers, developers, and SREs who want to learn Python for network automation, programmability, monitoring, cloud, and data analysis. Network engineers who want to transition from manual to automation-based networks using the latest DevOps tools will also get a lot of useful information from this book.


Basic familiarity with Python programming and networking-related concepts such as Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/IP) will be helpful in getting the most out of this book.

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What’s new in the fourth edition?

This new edition is completely revised and updated to work with the latest Python features and DevOps frameworks. Besides updating the software and examples to the latest release, this edition is improved with readers’ feedback and observations on the last publication. In addition to new chapters introducing Docker containers and Python 3 AsyncIO for network engineers, each chapter is updated with the latest libraries with working examples to ensure compatibility and a solid understanding of networking concepts.

The fourth edition of Mastering Python Networking will take you on a Python-based journey to help you transition from a traditional network engineer to become a developer ready for the next generation of networks.

I hope that this book becomes a good resource to help you overcome new and existing network challenges.

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What are the key takeaways of this book?

As software development becomes more integrated into all technical operations, traditional command-line interfaces and vertically integrated network stack tools are no longer the optimal ways to manage today's networks.

The main takeaway I hope you get from the book is a change of mindset when approaching network challenges. We no longer need to think of networks as isolated, domain-specific fields in technology. Instead, we can approach any network challenge in a pragmatic and programmatic way. It is an integrated part of modern infrastructure that can offer a real competitive advantage to any business or organization.

I sincerely hope the book has achieved its goal of helping readers solve their network-related challenges.

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"The name of the book is "Mastering Python Networking", but the scope of coverage extends well beyond Python scripting. I am using this alone to bring my team of experienced CLI-fluent network security engineers up to speed on network automation and its related concepts. In short, a network engineer seeking to specialize in automation can get quite far using this text alone. Consider it an essential addition to your network engineering library."

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Daniel Luechtefeld- "Principal Consultant, Snowdog Technical and Cyber"

About the Author

Eric Chou is a seasoned technologist with over 20 years of experience. He has worked on some of the largest networks in the industry while working at Amazon, Azure, and other Fortune 500 companies. Eric is passionate about network automation, Python, DevOps, and helping companies build better security postures. In addition to being the author of Mastering Python Networking (Packt), he is the author or co-author of other top-selling books and highly-rated online classes. Eric is the primary inventor or co-inventor for three U.S. patents in IP telephony and networking. He shares his deep interest in technology through his books, classes, blog, and contributes to some of the popular Python open source projects.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Packt Publishing; 4th ed. edition (January 20, 2023)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 594 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 180323461X
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1803234618
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 2.24 pounds
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 9.25 x 7.52 x 1.2 inches
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Eric Chou is a seasoned technologist with over 19 years' experience. He has managed some of the largest networks in the industry while working at Amazon and Microsoft and is passionate about network automation and Python at heart. He shares this deep interest through his teachings as a Python instructor, blogger, and active contributor to some of the popular Python open source projects. Currently, Eric holds three patents in IP Telephony and Network Engineering. Eric is a principal engineer at A10 Networks with a focus on product research and development in the security field.

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If you're looking to get the foundation and basic structure of python so that you can learn your way into tensorflow and start running epochs on your softmax three layer neural networks, you got to get into the groove somehow and even if you're not a computer person and you're like me who's tossed Pig bellies down a pork assembly line for years, you'll find this book grants you the basic access to python syntax while paying close attention to the scope of function and implementing callbacks while learning how to assemble.json objects organize a raise, cut them subtract from them add to them and so on. I'm going to like my new job as a software engineer the guys at the slaughterhouse are going to be jealous as heck when I start banging my face on those keys and making money come out. Pigbellies going down the shoot, going to train retrain and install Transformers to model large language samples and pay special attention to something called self attention. That's what's going to bring in the money for a new pickup truck and a donkey. When you start talking about self-attention and attention heads you start looking at the interrelationships between words as a matrices that helps computers crack what we call intelligent speech or sentient reasoning with language. I wonder when they'll be able to do that with bacon.
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Tristan Ziemann
5.0 out of 5 stars awesome book as always
Reviewed in the United States on February 24, 2024
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I found Eric on linked learning. He seems passionate about sharing his knowledge and mistakes so that we don’t make them. I highly encourage everyone to read this book as he tells you here to dive deeper in many cases.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Having read the first page this is going to be good. I've decided.
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 If you're looking to get the foundation and basic structure of python so that you can learn your way into tensorflow and start running epochs on your softmax three layer neural networks, you got to get into the groove somehow and even if you're not a computer person and you're like me who's tossed Pig bellies down a pork assembly line for years, you'll find this book grants you the basic access to python syntax while paying close attention to the scope of function and implementing callbacks while learning how to assemble.json objects organize a raise, cut them subtract from them add to them and so on. I'm going to like my new job as a software engineer the guys at the slaughterhouse are going to be jealous as heck when I start banging my face on those keys and making money come out. Pigbellies going down the shoot, going to train retrain and install Transformers to model large language samples and pay special attention to something called self attention. That's what's going to bring in the money for a new pickup truck and a donkey. When you start talking about self-attention and attention heads you start looking at the interrelationships between words as a matrices that helps computers crack what we call intelligent speech or sentient reasoning with language. I wonder when they'll be able to do that with bacon.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Having read the first page this is going to be good. I've decided.
Reviewed in the United States on February 12, 2023
If you're looking to get the foundation and basic structure of python so that you can learn your way into tensorflow and start running epochs on your softmax three layer neural networks, you got to get into the groove somehow and even if you're not a computer person and you're like me who's tossed Pig bellies down a pork assembly line for years, you'll find this book grants you the basic access to python syntax while paying close attention to the scope of function and implementing callbacks while learning how to assemble.json objects organize a raise, cut them subtract from them add to them and so on. I'm going to like my new job as a software engineer the guys at the slaughterhouse are going to be jealous as heck when I start banging my face on those keys and making money come out. Pigbellies going down the shoot, going to train retrain and install Transformers to model large language samples and pay special attention to something called self attention. That's what's going to bring in the money for a new pickup truck and a donkey. When you start talking about self-attention and attention heads you start looking at the interrelationships between words as a matrices that helps computers crack what we call intelligent speech or sentient reasoning with language. I wonder when they'll be able to do that with bacon.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Looking forward to Lear a lot from this gem
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Everett McArthur
4.0 out of 5 stars Covers enough to get your feet wet when writing your own networking tools in Python.
Reviewed in the United States on May 9, 2023
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Overall it is a pretty good book that covers a lot of different networking use cases. I didn't give it five stars because it seemed to use vendor proprietary techniques versus using open standards. For example the section on LLDP could have used SNMP tables to retrieve the data in a vendor agnostic way. That alone would have shown an example of collecting table data (with rows and columns) from SNMP which is very useful to network administration. I am not faulting the author's lab setups, which in themselves are very useful. I just don't agree with using a vendor specific method of gathering information when a non-vendor specific method is available. I think that using non-vendor specific methods prevent having to re-write software when a new piece of equipment is added to the network. Other than that, I thought the book was useful and informative.
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5.0 out of 5 stars This book is everything I have been Googling over the last 2 years to make my job easier.
Reviewed in the United States on January 25, 2023
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A must have for anyone interested in DevOps from a network engineering perspective.
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Daniel Luechtefeld
5.0 out of 5 stars THE Bible and Quran of Network Automation
Reviewed in the United States on February 23, 2023
Every discipline within IT has a few recognizable authorities; in the domain of automating network engineering Eric Chou is a name you should remember.

The name of the book is "Mastering Python Networking", but the scope of coverage extends well beyond Python scripting - at least half the book is on other topics (this is a feature, not a bug). As such, It's a primary reference for anything related to the basics of network automation for both premises DCs and cloud.

This is the fourth edition, and somehow it just keeps getting better. A review of the chapter title explains why it's my go-to:

Chapter 1: Review of TCP/IP Protocol Suite and Python
Chapter 2: Low-Level Network Device Interactions
Chapter 3: APIs and Intent-Driven Networking
Chapter 4: The Python Automation Framework – Ansible
Chapter 5: Docker Containers for Network Engineers
Chapter 6: Network Security with Python
Chapter 7: Network Monitoring with Python – Part 1
Chapter 8: Network Monitoring with Python – Part 2
Chapter 9: Building Network Web Services with Python
Chapter 10: Introduction to Async IO
Chapter 11: AWS Cloud Networking
Chapter 12: Azure Cloud Networking
Chapter 13: Network Data Analysis with Elastic Stack
Chapter 14: Working with Git
Chapter 15: Continuous Integration with GitLab
Chapter 16: Test-Driven Development for Networks

With this broad coverage, I am using this alone to bring my team of experienced CLI-fluent network security engineers up to speed on network automation and its related concepts (Infrastructure as Code, DevOps, CI/CD, version control, cloud-based networking, etc.).

In short, a network engineer seeking to specialize in automation (NetDevOps) can get quite far using this text alone. Consider it an essential addition to your network engineering library.

Finally, Eric - if you're reading this - you should convince Packt to name the fifth edition "The Network Automation Bible"...before O'Reilly publishes something under that title.

[Full disclosure: my review is based on an Early Review Copy I received from Packt]
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Miguel de Diego
1.0 out of 5 stars Zero instructions to start labs
Reviewed in Spain on March 16, 2024
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Thirty first pages with unuseful info about Python, then start the labs. No instructions about how start working. Closed the book at page 45
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Atul M.
5.0 out of 5 stars Amazing - Highly Recommended
Reviewed in India on June 25, 2023
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Just started reading and without a doubt this is one of the Best books Mastering Python networking and automation.. Highly recommended... Five Stars *****
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Theodoros Skouras
5.0 out of 5 stars Masterpiece for Network Automation
Reviewed in Germany on May 30, 2023
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Eric's approach is so diligent that you can easily digest the topics, that are being represented. I totally recommend this book both to novice and experienced Network engineers, with or without prior experience in Python
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